remarkable VS Babel (Formerly 6to5)

> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library

You can.

Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is:

https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...

Simultaneously the #1 trending developer on GitHub across all languages (out of ~17 million developers at the time) with multiple #1 trending projects: Remarkable (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable), a markdown parser and compiler (also across all languages, out of ~7 million projects), Enquirer (https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer), a stylish, user-friendly prompt system.

Since then they've made things that are IMO quite useful, like enquirer, micromatch, and remarkable.

mdview (sources) uses RemarkableJS for MD->HTML conversion.

will give you split-view out-of-the-box. But web dev's will start looking for frameworks in order to achieve this simple task that browser have internally already.

TL;DR: Web and desktop UIs use inherently different models. You can share parts between these two different platforms but only parts, really.

[1] Remarkable JS: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable

The problem was I had used some new code, Javascript's replaceAll(), that is unsupported by older browsers. And, the setup I have to automatically fix such issues (called babel) is out of date. So, while this problem appears to be resolved there, I hadn't updated that in awhile.

babel-loader(v9.1.0): allows transpiling JavaScript files using Babel and webpack.

created 6 years ago to solve the specific problem of managing the Babel repo packages

There are quite a few public repositories of well-known projects that use the multi-packages monorepo approach: Babel, React, Jest to name a few.

The reason it doesn't get called out is because the philosophy of "thousands of small packages" has spread far and wide. [1]

For every person calling it out like we're doing here, there are ten others praising maintainers able to whip ten semi-useless packages per week.

It's not just random maintainers making small packages. The core infrastructure of Javascript is in it. Babel is made of hundreds of packages, which all live on the same repository (because of course the maintainers don't want the hassle of maintaining multiple things). Some of those packages don't even have anything of importance in it, just metadata, a couple flags and some boilerplate [2]. The package is just a way of organizing code. Webpack, ESLint and others aren't exactly better.

The reason people do it is because other popular people have been doing it for a long time, and nobody calls them out on it.

[1] https://blog.sindresorhus.com/small-focused-modules-9238d977...

[1] https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/main/packages/babel-plug...

babel

[ { "htmlUrl": "https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/7357", "title": "injecting external-helpers in a node app", "body": "\r\n\r\nChoose one: is this a bug report or feature request? (docs?) bug report\r\n\r\nI'm trying to use a package that assumes that the external-helpers are available as a global. From the [docs](https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/external-helpers/#injecting-the-external-helpers), I should be able to inject them to `global` in my node app by using `require(\"babel-core\").buildExternalHelpers();`. However, use of that still results in the following error: `ReferenceError: babelHelpers is not defined`\r\n\r\n### Babel/Babylon Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)\r\nSince the `buildExternalHelpers()` function needs to run before the package is imported and my app uses es module imports, I'm using a bootstrap file as an entry point that is ignored from transpilation and just tries to inject the helpers before loading the actual app:\r\n\r\n``` js\r\nrequire(\"babel-core\").buildExternalHelpers();\r\nconst app = require('./app');\r\n ```\r\n\r\n### Expected Behavior\r\n\r\n`babelHelpers` should be added to `global` so that it is available for the package that assumes it is available there.\r\n\r\nfrom the docs:\r\n> This injects the external helpers into `global`.\r\n\r\n### Current Behavior\r\n\r\n`babelHelpers` is not made available on `global`, resulting in `ReferenceError: babelHelpers is not defined`\r\n\r\n### Possible Solution\r\n\r\nThe docs also [mention](https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/external-helpers/#getting-the-external-helpers) generating a helpers file with `./node_modules/.bin/babel-external-helpers [options] > helpers.js`. It wasn't obvious to me that this file could be imported to accomplish the same goal as `buildExternalHelpers()` until I started reading the source of that file. Importing that file instead does work for my app. I'll need this file elsewhere, so I'll likely just continue importing that instead, even if there is a way to use `buildExternalHelpers()`.\r\n\r\nWith that approach, my bootstrap file has the following contents instead:\r\n\r\n``` js\r\nrequire('../../vendor/babel-helpers');\r\nconst app = require('./app');\r\n ```\r\n\r\n### Your Environment\r\n\r\n\r\n| software | version(s)\r\n| ---------------- | -------\r\n| Babel | 6.26.0\r\n| node | 8.9.4\r\n| npm | 5.6.0\r\n| Operating System | macOS High Sierra \r\n\r\n### Forum\r\n\r\nWhile I was still trying to find a working solution, I was trying to find the best place to ask questions. The website still links to a discourse forum that no longer seems to exist. It'd be a good idea to either remove the link from the site or at least have it link to somewhere that describes the currently recommended approach for getting that type of help.\r\n", "createdAt": "2018-02-08T20:49:23Z" } ]

[2] https://github.com/babel/babel

Tools like Lerna, Bazel, Nx, Rush, Turborepo, to name a few. Lerna is probably the grand daddy of all monorepo tools. CRA, Babel, Jest are a few projects that use it. Bazel has been refined and tested for years at Google to build heavy-duty, mission-critical infrastructure, services, and applications. Turborepo is the monorepo for Vercel, the leading platform for frontend frameworks. These tools can help keep your monorepo workspaces fast, understandable and manageable.